Carlos Saura
Carlos Saura was born on Jan 04, 1932 in Spain. Carlos Saura's big-screen debut came with Muere una mujer directed by Mario Camus in 1965. Carlos Saura is known for Anna and the Wolves directed by Carlos Saura, Geraldine Chaplin stars as Ana and Fernando Fernán Gómez as Fernando. Carlos Saura has got 62 awards and 46 nominations so far. The most recent award Carlos Saura achieved is Goya Awards. The upcoming new movie Carlos Saura plays is Anna and the Wolves which will be released on May 18, 2018.
Spanish director, writer, producer (2 films) and actor (2 films). His interest on cinema started when he was very young. His mother, who was a pianist, instilled in him the liking for music, and his brother, Antonio, who was a painter, the passion for art. When he was an teenager he started to practice photography, and in 1950 he made his first illustrated feature films with a 16 mm camera. Carlos Saura is an excellent photographer, an activity that he shares in a sporadic way with the making of films.He then moved to Madrid to continue his Industrial Engineering career, but his vocation for photography, cinema and journalism made him leave his studies and matriculate at the Instituto de Investigaciones y Estudios Cinematográficos (Cinematographic Study and Research Institute). Sporadically, he combined his cinematographic studies with the courses at the Escuela de Periodismo (Journalism School). In 1957 he finished studying and got the director diploma. At the same time, he finished his end-of-career short film La tarde del domingo (1957). He continued as a professor until 1963. In that year he was removed from the school for strictly political reasons (Franco's censorship).In 1959 he filmed _Golfos, Los (1962)_. In this film he tried to create a sort of Spanish Neo-Realism by tackling the juvenile delinquency in the Madrid's poor quarters from a sociological point of view. In his first stage as director he tried to take a position in favour of outcast people, and he got to make a both lyric and documentary-style cinema.Saura is a well accepted director both nationally and internationally, and in proof of it he won many awards among which there are the following ones: Silver Bear in the Berlin Festival for La chasse (1966), in 1965, and for Peppermint Frappé (1967), in 1967. Special Jury Awards in Cannes for La cousine Angélique (1974), in 1973, and for Cría cuervos... (1976), in 1975. Also, the film Maman a cent ans (1979) got an Oscar nomination in 1979 as the best foreign film, and it also won the Special Jury Award at the San Sebastian Festival. In 1990, he won two Goya awards as best adapted screenplay writer and best director.
Birthday
Jan 04, 1932Place of Birth
Huesca, Aragón, Spain
Known For
Awards
62 wins & 46 nominations
Movies & TV Shows
- 2015
director, writer
6.6 - 2010
director, writer
7.2 - 2009
director, writer
6.8 - 2005
writer, director
7.1 - 2004
director
6.7 - 2002
director, writer
7.0 - 2001
Buñuel y la mesa del rey Salomón
director, writer
5.6 - 1999
director, writer
6.7 - 1998
director, writer
7.0 - 1997
director, writer
6.6 - 1996
director
6.5 - 1993
director, writer
6.0 - 1991
director
5.6 - 1989
director, writer
5.9 - 1988
director, writer
6.3 - 1986
director, writer
7.0 - 1984
director, writer
6.3 - 1982
director, writer
5.8 - 1982
director, writer
6.3 - 1981
director, writer
7.5 - 1981
director, writer
7.0 - 1979
director, writer
7.1 - 1978
director, writer
6.4 - 1977
director, writer
7.4 - 1976
writer, director
7.9 - 1974
director, writer
7.4 - 1973
director, writer
7.4 - 1970
director, writer
6.8 - 1969
director, writer
6.6 - 1968
director, writer
6.5 - 1967
director, writer
7.2 - 1965
writer
5.4